[spectre] History of Networked Art conference

[Alessandro Ludovico]

History of Networked Art,
people, places, events, technologies and theories.

a conference curated by Tommaso Tozzi and Alessandro Ludovico

Friday, July 29, 2005

Accademia di Belle Arti (Academy of Fine Arts)
Via Roma 1 - Carrara (Tuscany, Italy) tel. +39 0585 71658

9.30am - 1.30pm / 3.00pm - 7.00pm


with (in alphabetical order):

Robert Adrian (Wien, AU)
Hans Bernhard (Wien, AU)
Arturo Di Corinto (Roma, IT)
Steven Kovats  (Rotterdam, NL)
Enrico Pedrini (Genova, IT)
Cornelia Sollfrank (Hamburg, DE)
Luca Toschi (Firenze, IT)

installation:
Giuseppe Chiari (Firenze - IT)
"Audio and Video recording from the seventies and eighties"



program:

9.30am - 1:30 pm

- Tommaso Tozzi - coordinator of Multimedia Art 
Department, Academy of Fine Arts Carrara, 
Florence, IT

- Enrico Pedrini - critic, Genova, IT

- Luca Toschi - director of the Communication 
Strategies laboratory and head of the 
Communication Theory master's degreee, Florence, 
IT

- Robert Adrian - artist - Wien, AT

- Arturo Di Corinto - teacher of Online Communication Psichology - Rome - IT

- discussion


3.00pm - 7:00pm

- Alessandro Ludovico  - new media critic, Neural.it - Bari, IT

- Hans Bernhard - artist, Ubermorgen, Etoyholding - Wien, AT

- Steven Kovats - international programs 
developer, V2_Institute for the Unstable Media - 
Rotterdam, NL

- Cornelia Sollfrank - artist, Old Boys Network - Hamburg, DE

- discussion


In the networked art the artwork 's boundaries 
dissolve in the intertwined relationships between 
subjects, objects, strategies and theories. This 
process not only modifies artistic, political and 
commercial models, but it transforms the culture, 
the languages and the logic behind the theories 
of the interconnected society. 
Inter-disciplinarity, indetermination, 
transformation, decentralization and interaction, 
are among the key concepts of the sixties. But 
they are also the background of the artists that 
have used the telematic networks to plan new 
worlds or to critique the existing ones. The 
conference 'History of the Net Arts' has the 
purpose to gather some important experiences 
about some of the most active subjects, their 
actions and external collaboration with 
institutions, groups and movements, the 
technologies they used and, even more 
importantly, their theorical, social and cultural 
goals.

http://www.neural.it/nnews/historyofnetworkedart.htm
http://www.ecn.org/wikiartpedia/comunicati/historyofnetworkedart.htm


Biographies.

Robert Adrian X (CA/AT)
Celebrated contemporary artist, produces 
installations, radio art and sound art works from 
1957, and he's one of the recognized pioneer of 
telecomunication art. He started to work and 
experiment in this field already in 1979. He 
lives in Vienna.

Hans Bernhard (CH/AU)
One of the Etoy founders and creator of practices 
like the 'digital hijack'. He founded the 
Ubermorgen group with Lizvlx, and realized famous 
net.art works like 'Vote-Auction', 'Injunction 
Generator' and 'Google Will Eat Itself'. He won 
many awards like the prestigious Prix Ars 
Electronica's 'golden nica'. He lives and works 
in St.Moritz and Vienna.

Giuseppe Chiari (IT)
Musician and artist. He's a composer from 1950 
and he's the most important Italian 
representative of the Fluxus movement, and one of 
the most important italian artists of the 20th 
century. He wrote books, essays and writings that 
have changed the music system, and his works are 
exhibited in museums all around the world. He's 
author of happenings and music experiments and he 
wrote music for different media.

Arturo Di Corinto (IT)
Cognitive psychologist and new media expert. 
Researcher at the University of Stanford 
(1997-1998), teacher at the Carrara Academy of 
Arts and University of Rome. He's author of 
essays on the technological innovation and social 
behaviours relationship. He's a founding member 
of the Avvisi Ai Naviganti BBS, Isole nella Rete 
and Cittadigitali. He also writes for the 
national newspapers Il Manifesto, La Repubblica 
and for the magazine Aprile.

Stephen Kovats (CA/NL)
Canadian born architect and media researcher 
Stephen Kovats spent a decade upon German 
unification designing and establishing media art 
and culture related programs at the Bauhaus 
Dessau Foundation. His "Studio Electronic Media 
Interpretation" hosted numerous international 
projects, symposia and exhibitions.  Kovats 
founded several media culture oriented exchange 
and  network programs including Archi-Tonomy, 
EMARE, ECX and  the Bauhauskolleg. Editor of the 
book "Media Revolution. Electronic Media in the 
Transformation Process of Eastern and Central 
Europe". Currently Kovats is international 
programs developer at V2_Institute for the 
Unstable Media in Rotterdam.

Alessandro Ludovico (IT)
Media critic and editor in chief of Neural 
magazine from 1993. He has written media culture 
books and essays. He's one of the founding 
contributor of the Nettime community and one of 
the founders of the 'Mag.Net (European Cultural 
Publishers)' organization. He writes for various 
international magazines and he's also an expert 
in the Runme.org board and a collaborator of the 
Digitalkraft exhibitions.

Enrico Pedrini (IT)
He curated international exhibitions and he was 
one of the curators of the Taiwan Pavillion in 
the 1995 Venice Biennale. He has written many 
essays on contemporary art. Actually he's 
studying the interactions amongst the Dissipative 
Systems, the Theory of Chaos and the Possible 
Worlds that bring to the art universe the 
cathegories of the dissipation and possibilism.

Cornelia Sollfrank (DE)
Studied Fine Arts in Munich and Hamburg, taught 
at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Hamburg, 
founder member of the female artists' group 
«Frauen und Technik» and '-Innen'. She's a 
founder-member of «Old Boys Network» and 
facilitator of the conference series 'Next 
Cyberfeminist International'. She works in the 
field of Internet art. She lives in Hamburg and 
Berlin.

Luca Toschi (IT)
Director of the 'Laboratory of the communication 
strategies' and head of the master's degree in 
Communication Theory, University of Florence. 
Author of the book 'Il linguaggio dei nuovi 
media', he has written essays on the relationship 
between education and the language of new media. 
Ha has started his career as researcher in 1970 
at the UCLA, during the establishment of the 
first Arpanet nodes. He's a consultant for 
private and public firms.

Tommaso Tozzi (IT)
Teacher at the University of Florence and at the 
Carrara Academy of Arts, where he coordinates the 
Multimedia Arts Department. Director of uCAN - 
Center for Research and Documentation on 
Networked Arts and Digital Cultures. He has been 
the head of the cultural association Strano 
Network. Editor of Hacker Art BBS (1990) and 
creator of the first worldwide netstrike (1995). 
Founding member of the italian newsgroup 
Cyberpunk (1991) and of the net Cybernet (1993).
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